Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

—Mignon McLaughlin

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

—Samuel Johnson

It could be that there's only one word and it's all we need. It's here in this pencil. Every pencil in the world is like this.

—W. S. Merwin

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Leap, and the net will appear.

—John Burroughs

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson